Buddhist, the Brahman-modifications
of them all must ensue. In that conflict science alone will stand
secure; for it has given us grander views of the universe, more awful
views of God.

AMERICAN AND FRENCH REVOLUTIONS. The spirit that has imparted life to
this movement, that has animated these discoveries and inventions, is
Individualism; in some minds the hope of gain, in other and nobler ones
the expectation of honor. It is, then, not to be wondered at that
this principle found a political embodiment, and that, during the last
century, on two occasions, it gave rise to social convulsions--the
American and the French Revolutions. The former has ended in the
dedication of a continent to Individualism--there, under republican
forms, before the close of the present century, one hundred million
people, with no more restraint than their common security requires, will
be pursuing an unfettered career. The latter, though it has modified
the political aspect of all Europe, and though illustrated by surprising
military successes, has, thus far, not consummated its intentions; again
and again it has brought upon France fearful disasters. Her dual form of
government--her allegiance to her two sovereigns, the political and the
spiritual--has made her at once the leader and the antagonist of modern
progress. With one hand she has enthroned Reason, with the other she
has re-established and sustained the pope. Nor will this anomaly in her
conduct cease until she bestows a true education on all her children,
even on those of the humblest rustic.

SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION. The intellectual attack made on existing
opinions by the French Revolution was not of a scientific, but of a
literary character; it was critical and aggressive. But Science has
never been an aggressor. She has always acted on the defensive, and left
to her antagonist the making of wanton attacks. Nevertheless, literary
dissent is not of such ominous import as scientific; for literature is,
in its nature, local--science is cosmopolitan.

If, now, we demand, What has science done for the promotion of modern
civilization; what has it done for the happiness, the well-being of
society? we shall find our answer in the same manner that we reached
a just estimate of what Latin Christianity had done. The reader of the
foregoing paragraphs would undoubtedly infer that there must have
been an amelioration in the lot of our race; but, when we apply the
touchstone of statisti